The door jumped forward, completely swallowing up the smiling Fang Dot, and a polka-dot butterfly hair string floated in the air.
Bai Liu slowly fell from the cluster of spheres. A ball of light floated out of his body and slowly drifted away. Bai Liu stretched out his hand absentmindedly. He saw the shiny black leather glove on his hand. He heard Bai Liu's laughter in his mind:
【You have completely merged with me. 】
[Now you are the new evil god. ]
[Next, merge the desires of the derivatives in other world lines, and you will become even stronger.]
"Fusion... So that's how it works." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, staring motionlessly at the polka dot butterfly hair tie that fell at his feet. "Those derivatives are just like me in the past. They are your carriers, right?"
"Those derivatives also won the game and wanted to become gods. You did make them gods just like you made me a god. But soon, they merged with your consciousness, or desire, and were devoured by you."
"What you are looking for is not a new evil god, but just a new carrier."
[You can say yes, and you can say no.] Bai Liu smiled and answered, [I just can't find a carrier that can really stop me from devouring them. They are too easily succumbed to my derived desires.]
[If you can really make me disappear, I will be very grateful to you. ]
"I will not merge those derivative desires." Bai Liu raised his head, waved his hand, and countless world lines spread out around him. He clicked on the first world line, and his eyes lit up with halos, "I will not become your new carrier either."
"The so-called evil god's game will end here."
Bai Liu's voice was somewhat surprised: [What are you going to do? ]
Bai Liu raised his eyes: "I want to load all world lines, the initial save point you set, and kill all your derivatives before everything starts--"
"—including myself."
Silver-blue light continuously emanated from Bai Liu's body, and those world lines that were protected to the end by Fang Dian gathered around Bai Liu. The warm halo illuminated Bai Liu's face. There seemed to be many expressions on his face, but it also seemed as if there were no expressions at all, only a kind of calmness that he had already thought of the ending for himself.
Bai Liu stretched out his hand and dragged up a world line. The light of this world line had become mostly turbid. It was suspended in Bai Liu's palm and swayed unsteadily from side to side, trying to pass through Bai Liu's body and reach the other side of the door. Bai Liu lowered his eyes and reached his hand into this world line. He held something.
[System prompt: The evil god Bai Liu is loading into the reset point of world line 001.]
[So that's how it is.] Bai Liu chuckled, [You want to become the evil god in order to obtain the initial reset point of each world line from me, and to obtain the power to reset all world lines. I'm curious, I gave you so many save points on the spaceship, how did you guess that I hid the initial reset point in the world line.]
"Because..." Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at this world line, "They are all telling me not to be afraid of separation, we will meet again in the end."
"There must be something that can start over."
"And this is a game, and the only thing you can restart is a reset."
[That's true.] Bai Liurao said with interest, [But Bai Liu, you have to think about it carefully. Resetting can indeed restart the game, and it can also reunite their shattered souls from this universe.]
【But human memory cannot be reset. 】
[After you reset, they will be stripped of their player identities and become just a group of NPCs, so they will no longer remember you as a player. Any traces of your existence and other people's memories of you will disappear with you and will never be found again.]
【——Including their feelings for you. 】
[And now, what you want most is this thing, isn't it? After the reset, whether it is the friendship of Mu Sicheng, Mu Ke, Tang Erda, Liu Jiayi, the affection of Fang Dian and Lu Yizhan, and even the love of Tavier, they will all disappear. They may even regard you as an enemy because of your identity as the evil god.]
[Do you want to protect them alone, relying on 658's memory that no one cares about after it was reset? ]
【That's not fair.】
The turbid world line 001 enveloped Bai Liu, and he slowly fell to the ground. This was the scene of the final battle at the beginning of world line 001. Facing him were the Inquisitors of the True Cross and Bai Liu who were confronting each other in the temple.
Bai Liu saw the pale Lu Yizhang and Fang Dian who was hugging him. He stood there quietly, watching the scene for a while, and soon he was discovered. A group of people looked at the second Bai Liu who appeared in the temple in astonishment. Lu Yizhang and Fang Dian quickly drew their heavy swords and looked at him with hostility in their eyes: "Who are you?"
【You see, human emotions are so fragile. 】
【If they don’t remember you, they won’t have any feelings for you. 】
Bai Liu smiled and said,
"But I remember." Bai Liu raised his eyes, "I won't forget it."
Bai Liu looked at Bai Liu who was negotiating a contract with Fang Dian, drew out his gun, pointed it at him, and said calmly: "I will never forget it."
"It is these things that transformed me from a derivative of you into a white willow."
[You are such a lunatic.] Bai Liu's voice was filled with laughter, [Is this the way you came up with to kill me? Make yourself my final carrier, and after making sure that I don't have the ability to create new carriers, kill all the carriers. Although I will no longer exist, you will also cease to exist.]
"Then it should cease to exist." Bai Liu lowered his eyes, not looking at the noisy and shocked Heretic Administration behind him, "I don't like a world with gods."
Bai Liu pulled the trigger, and the moment the bullet passed through Bai Liu, Bai Liu seemed to be hit, his body leaned back and shook violently.
There were visible cracks on his shoulders. Fang Dian and Lu Yizhang looked at the evil god who had killed the evil god in astonishment. They wanted to go up and ask something, but Bai Liuhua stepped out of the door, opened it, turned around and left.
The next second, the world flashed, fell into darkness, and closed.
[System prompt: World line 001 is erasing the game traces of player Bai Liu and is being reset.]
…
[System prompt: The evil god Bai Liu is loading into the reset point of world line 006]
At the moment when the fourteen-year-old Bai Liu was about to extend his hand to trade with Wu Ruishu, Bai Liu coldly extended his hand, threw out a poker card, and knocked Bai Liu's right hand away.
At the same time, Bai Liu's right hand began to shatter, and the statue of Wu Ruishu in the temple began to wake up.
Bai Liu watched Lu Yizhan tremblingly patting Wu Ruishu's confused face, lowered her eyes, turned around and left.
[System prompt: World line 002 is erasing the game traces of player Bai Liu and is being reset.]
…
[System prompt: The evil god Bai Liu is loading the 0317 world line to reset the save point]
When Bai Liu asked to play Truth or Dare with Lu Yizhan, Bai Liu was by the window. The moment Cen Mingming took out his gun, Bai Liu also took out his gun and aimed it at Bai Liu who was playing the game with a smile in the interrogation room.
At the same time, Cen Mingming's records in the Heretic Administration files were quietly erased.
The cracked marks on Bai Liu spread to his back.
[System prompt: World line 0317 is erasing player Bai Liu's game traces and is resetting.]
…
[System prompt: The evil god Bai Liu is loading the 0369 world line to reset the save point]
On the league field, the moment Daniel went crazy and shot at Su Yang, Bai Liu pulled out his whip, knocked Daniel's gun away, and at the same time took out his soul-shattering gun and aimed it at Bai Liu next to him.
The game ended early, Tang Erda's face turned pale, and he hugged Su Yang as a survivor.
The shattered parts of Bai Liu spread to her thighs and arms, and the record of Tang Erda in the Heretic Management Bureau disappeared.
[System prompt: World line 0369 is erasing player Bai Liu's game traces and is resetting.]
…
[System prompt: The evil god Bai Liu is loading the 0658 world line to reset the save point]
Bai Liu came to the orphanage where he lived ten years ago. He saw himself at the age of fourteen before he met Xie Ta. He ate alone, read alone, and stayed alone in the church.
[Do you really want to kill him?] Bai Liu asked with a chuckle in Bai Liu's mind, [Those Bai Liu before were indeed inferior derivatives, smuggling a lot of heretics that polluted the world.]
【But you should know the one in front of you better than anyone else. 】
【Just an ordinary human child. 】
Bai Liu stood at the back of the church. He lowered his eyes and looked at the little boy who was sitting alone in the first row of the church, reading a book for a long time. The fourteen-year-old Bai Liu was reading the storybook of Slender Man very seriously, but there was no one next to him. Only scattered green shadows shone through the windows of the church onto his book, creating a hazy and intertwined feeling.
The fourteen-year-old Xiao Bai Liu seemed to realize that someone was there. He turned his head and saw Bai Liu. Bai Liu raised his gun and aimed at the other party.
How would he, a fourteen-year-old, react when faced with someone who wanted to kill him for no reason?
Bai Liu couldn't remember it anymore. He only vaguely remembered that he always imagined that someone would come to kill him, and then he would...
The little white willow in front of him looked at him quietly for a while, then closed his eyes.
"Are you here to kill this monster of mine?"
"Then you kill him."
...I will accept someone killing me.
Because he was a monster, it was normal for him to be killed. He shouldn't have existed in this world without people like him. This was what everyone around him told him when he was fourteen, and he took it for granted.
No one cares about him, no one understands him, no one... loves him.
Bai Liu placed the gun on the table in the church. He sat next to Xiao Bailiu, opened the first page of the story book, lowered his eyes and said softly, "I will accompany you to finish this book."
"I'll kill you after you read this."
Little Bai Liu sat down obediently. He paused, stole a glance at Bai Liu sitting next to him, and whispered, "Can you watch it twice before killing me?"
“I love this book.”
Bai Liu was silent for a moment: "Okay."
He turned his head and calmly looked at Xiao Bailiu who pushed the book to him to share it with him, and thought - in the next ten years, many people will come to your side and read books with you.
They love you, will cook delicious food for you, play the most dangerous horror games with you, squeeze together with you for warmth in a cramped house, spend every birthday with you, and you will be like the happy family in your most hated fairy tale storybook, spending the long winter in a steaming hot pot, and you will never be alone again.
But I'm sorry.
I will take them away from your future.
When the story book turned to the last page for the second time, Bai Liu pulled out his gun and pointed it at Xiao Bai Liu. Xiao Bai Liu's body stiffened and he closed his eyes tremblingly. Then Bai Liu lowered his eyelids. He slowly turned the muzzle of the gun around and pointed it at his head. He said in a soft and calm voice: "He is indeed right."
"I am the one who did something wrong and shouldn't exist."
"Bang--!"
Gunshots rang out.
[System prompt: World line 0658 is erasing the game traces of player Bai Liu and is being reset.]
All world lines were reset, and Bai Liu's body was like a tree that withered in an instant. In just a moment, his body dissipated into fallen leaves, and he turned into a drifting soul, sinking down and down.
He sank into the silver-blue space, slowly falling down in the deep sea-like space, and then falling down again. A halo of light illuminated Bai Liu's face. He opened his eyes absent-mindedly, and saw the system background spaceships floating in the universe, and the background spaceships that were no longer circling around them. Everything was being reset and turned into 658 pure white world lines again.
[My carrier is your soul.] Bai Liu's laughter once again rang in Bai Liu's ears, [As long as your soul is not destroyed, I will always exist.]
[Do you have the courage to destroy your own soul and let you and I disappear together? ]
[But if you destroy your own soul, there will be no one to guard the gates to protect these newly reset world lines from being polluted. ]
Bai Liu turned his head and saw that at the deepest part of the universe was an old carved door that was still open. Silver-blue dust was constantly overflowing from the door, trying to pollute the reset world lines. Bai Liu floated down, he grasped the pull ring of the carved door, took a deep breath, and wanted to close the door.
...It's just one more step. As long as he pulls it tight, the game will be over.
[…How could I have a derivative as stubborn as you? This door can’t be closed.] Bai Liu said helplessly and sighed, [Just like the door of human desire, it will never be closed. It needs to be guarded at all times to prevent heretics and monsters from overflowing.]
[You have shattered all the carriers and are unable to absorb the power of desire. With your current energy, you cannot close the door. If you force the door to close, you will only damage your own soul.]
Bai Liu used all his strength to close the door. His soul became ethereal as a result. His voice was hoarse: "...There is a way to close it forever."
"Didn't you tell me this in the witch dungeon?"
"【The brave and painful soul will turn into a gem the moment it leaves the body. This gem can fill the gaps in desire.】"
"My soul is just like this, isn't this door the crack of desire?"
Bai Liu fell silent for a long time before he said softly: [It's just a theoretical solution.]
[If you do that, you will no longer exist in this world line, Bai Liu.]
[Your soul will become the key to close this door, and will exist on the door forever, but you have consciousness, memory, and emotions. You will become the living gold in the Kingdom of Gold. The suffering of those people will fill up the hourglass in just ten years, and you, a soul that has been turned into a key, will continue to endure desire in pain for tens of millions, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of years——]
[——It’s really unfair to you to save those people who have given you a little affection.]
This is not a fair trade.
"But feelings are not something that can be traded fairly." Bai Liu smiled lightly. He reached out to touch the door, with a halo in his eyes. "I think it's worth it."
The moment Bai Liu's hand touched the door guard, another hand also held Bai Liu's hand. Bai Liu stopped moving as if he had been electrocuted. He stared at the hand in a daze, and then someone hugged him tightly from behind.
"I'm sorry." Xie Ta hugged Bai Liu's soul and shed tears, "I'm late."
"I'm sorry." Shetta repeated these three words very softly, "I'm sorry, I remembered it too late, I was too stupid, and made you wait too long."
He looked back from the past and finally remembered everything, but when he saw Bai Liu's soul, he knew that things were beyond redemption.
Bai Liu has become the new evil god.
"It's too late to say sorry now." Bai Liu let go of her hand, raised his head, hugged Xie Ta, closed his eyes, and said softly, "I'm leaving you."
“No!” For the first time, visible fear appeared on Sheta’s usually calm face. His tears could not stop falling, and turned into water droplets hanging in the air.
Bai Liu smiled, and he put his forehead against Xie Ta's, wiped away the tears on his face, and said softly: "You are afraid too, Xie Ta."
"Then when you left me, why didn't you know that I would be afraid too?"
Shetta raised her head, tears dripping from her chin, and said in a trembling voice: "I'll accompany you."
"I'll keep watch with you."
"You can't accompany me." Bai Liu raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "I don't want you to accompany me."
"I want you to wait for me."
"I want to torture you. I want you to know how painful it was for me to wait for you. I want you to know that I am somewhere deep in this universe, but you cannot come to see me. I want you to live a happy life, but you will not be happy if you think of me."
"——I will act like an evil god and take the pain from you."
"Since I became the evil god, I have never taken pain from anyone. You offer me pain, and you are my only believer."
"God will grant any wish of the one believer."
Bai Liu gently lowered his eyelashes, closed his eyes, and kissed Xie Ta, who hugged him in tears and was unwilling to let him go:
“So pray sincerely.”
Bai Liu fell into the door, her eyelids gradually drooped, and her soul attached to the gap in the door:
"...We will meet again."
The door closed, and a violent burst of silver-blue light burst out from the other side.
[System prompt: The evil god is overlapping, the double-sided world of the door is about to be reset... Reset failed... Reset again... Detected that the door is closed, unable to reset...]
[Warning! Warning! The door has been locked. The system cannot absorb energy from the other side of the door. Insufficient energy. It will be closed soon...]
【The game system is shut down.】